Charles François Daubigny
1817-1878
Cattle and Figures in the Moonlight
9 15/16 x 15 3/16 inches (252 x 386 mm)
Black chalk with smudging and erasures on laid paper
2022.329
Gift of Karen B. Cohen in Honor of William M. Griswold.
Notes
Daubigny was lauded for his sincerity, achieved by copying nature not through the eye and hand but "with his soul," as his disciples said. This drawing of cows grazing and figures shearing sheep at night was created in preparation for a painting. Nocturnes became a theme for Daubigny, whose moonlit scenes grew increasingly moody in his later years.
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Watermark: Bunch of grapes with thick curved stem.
Associated names
Cohen, Karen B., former owner.
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Century Drawings
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